I have found that with every loss has come an opportunity to learn.

I can recall some losses catapulting me into a deeper place with Christ so He might strip away teachings that were deeply rooted in my heart, yet error.

I can recall other losses that taught me the essence of grief and how to minister better to a heart in such a place.

Other times, a loss brought to question a hidden sin that Jesus put his finger on in my own heart. An unknown thing that harmed another that I had not acknowledged. Once I felt the same sting of pain, He was able to show me the truth of my own error and I was able to repent and go make it right with another.

So I have found loss to be, very often, an unwanted teacher.

I am grateful for the lessons but, as you might feel as well, wish the lesson could have come another way. I suspect Jesus preferred it also but often we are quite unteachable when it comes to our own heart sins.

The hardest prayer to pray is for the Lord to cleanse your heart of all unlike Him.

A cleansing can come in many forms. Sometimes it includes a loss.

Loss isn’t always a lesson sometimes it’s a tool of Satan. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I’ve learned sometimes we give God credit for the work of Satan. And, likewise, we might blame God, or Satan, when in all reality…..it’s just us. Free willed creatures prone to sin and often wanting our own ways more than Gods.

Each loss makes me long more for Heaven. Rest from the battle will be quite nice.

But until my appointed time has come, I’ll keep learning from loss…and trusting God to work all things out for His good.